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The Dolton Ferry was once located near the present-day Indiana Avenue bridge. From the 1830s until the Civil War, those escaping enslavement fled into the Calumet region. From here, they moved on to Chicago, Detroit and Canada. This meant that freedom seekers were frequently using the ferry/bridge crossing. The Ton family, along with other early settlers, were a part of the Underground Railroad.

This 16.56-acre Chicago Park district site was previously part of the U.S. Steel Complex known as South Works. The establishment of the steel works attracted and met the demands of industries such as the Pullman Palace Car Company. The site was recently converted into an attractive landscape with natural areas, walking paths, views of Lake Michigan and a community rock climbing wall, built on the historic ore wall.

Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, designated a National Historic Landmark.

Tucked away in Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois a monument dedicated to the one of the most important events American labor history, the Haymarket Affair, and the four men who were hanged in connection with its events.

Built in 1880, the Administration Clock Tower Building formed the central mass of a monumental structure seven hundred feet long. As the manufacturing center of Pullman, the Administration and Factory Complex was an unusually ornate industrial building designed to sit in a park-like setting.